The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-06-04
DO NOT BECOME ALARMED.
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he sets forth his reasons for an extra
session of the legislature. He says
IF the amendment is adopted the
state will lose 100000 or $500, 900
revenue; and for one he was opposed
to seeing the farmers taxed to raise il"
Mr.. Williamson is certainly honest
in his opinion, and is DESTROYS Of seeing
the farmers prosper and freed from
taxation. Adopt the amendment and
you will free them from fifty to seven
ty-6ve per cent. of taxes they are
paying under whiskeY reign. Every
Judge and lawyer 10 the land knows
that seventy-6ve per cent. Of all the
litigation If the Land grows out of the
whiskey traffic, and that nineteen,
twentieths of the criminal litigation is
produced from whisky or the use of
it. The saloon men of Cincinnati,
some time ago, got tired Of being
charged of being the cause of three
fourths of the litigation of the city,
and they told the temperance people
that they must make the charge
good or they would see trouble. The
temperance party examined the re-
cords Of the court and found that they
were the cause Of eighty-one per cent.
Of the litigation, and so it goes all
over the country.
| do not charge MIR. Williamson
with trying to alarm the voters or to
detract one vote from the amendment.
But we must take calm and reason
able view of this matter. Do away
with the whiskey and your tax will
be reduced fifty to seventy'6ve per
cent. in less than three years. For
every dollar the state receives for IL
cense, she pays out At least FIVE doll
lars to prosecute the crimes growing
out of the traffic, and to support the
widows and orphans, to say nothing
Of all the horrors and drunkards'
graves caused by it. Let me illus
trate. You all remember the Cash
Gardner case few years ago. A
man murdered-widow and orphans
left--a soul sent to everlasting perdi,
ton. The man that sold the whisk '
paid $3.50 into the till Of the state
and we tax payers paid out about BIC
to prosecute the murderer for every
one received by the state. The state
was the partner of the crime-receiVel
blood money for granting the priv
lege of making murder mills. Wha
an awful crime aud farce. Reader
did you vote to perpetuate the sa
> looms? II so, where do you stand
Think of the fearful responsibility
resting upon you. Do you think Goo
will bless you when you pray for thu
= whiskey traffic to he put down, apC
then 20 and deposit your ballot sid,
/ by side with the saloon keeper, t,
J., perpetuate the crimes being enacted
: in the country.
}, In 1850 the city of Philadsl phi,
y received for license, 5000, 600, an,
Y paid out $4,000, 600 to prosecute tn
!. crimes and support the widows ant
d orphans. Taking the population u
: that city AS basis, and the govern
:, ment now receiving ST 900, 900 rev
IS enue, we pay out about $3.50, 900 00
z to defray the expenses aud supper
A. the widows and orphans. Beside
!. all this, the people-the drinkin,
classes-pay out SSO0,O00,00O fo
lie whisSey. Seven millions 90 daily t
it the saloons aud FIVE hundred thousan
drunEards 20 stalking over the lanC
and sixty or seventy thousand 8
down TO druukards' graves annual,
b. The last ten years. previous I
1886 shows, from statistics, thu
ID 2l,000 deaths occurred from yello
VI fever. AT the same time the recorr
ID show that there were at least 800, Oh
l. deaths from whi,key, an excess f,
e, whiskey of $4,000 is said tn,
III the Federal war dett was So. 900. 600
"a "a 600 and that 500 600 men lost the